PRIMARY CONTACT PERSON
Provide contact information for the primary point person
for the contest entry.
First Name:
Razi
Last Name:
Imam
Title:
Email:
Phone:
CEO
razii@113Industries.com
412-779-6930
COMPANY OR INSTITUTION INFORMATION
Provide contact information for your business (if you have formed a
company. A company not having yet been formed will not be a detriment to
your application.)
1. If your submission is a New Product or Service:
Company:
Website:
Phone (main):
Number of employees:
Incorporation type:
Year founded:
Industry sector:
113 Industries
www.113Industries.com
412-387-3113
6
LLC
2010 _________________________________
Material Science and Energy
OR
2. If your submission is an academic research project:
Research Institution:
_____________________________________
Department:
_____________________________________
ADDRESS
Address1:
1000 Cliff Mine Rd
Address2:
Suite 330
City:
Pittsburgh
County:
Allegheny
State:
Zip:
PA
15275
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TEAM
Provide the names and titles or areas of focus of your
leadership/management/research team.
Name:
Title or Area of Focus:
Name:
Title or Area of Focus:
Name:
Title or Area of Focus:
Name:
Title or Area of Focus:
Lacramioara Schulte aufm Erley
Director of Innovation
Anupam Singh
President
Razi Imam
CEO
Kristin Bunker
Senior Scientist – Advisor to 113 Industries
Name:
_____________________________________
Title or Area of Focus:
_____________________________________
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TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT/COMMERCIALIZATION PLAN
This is the most important section of the entry form. Each field has a
maximum length of 800 characters, so be succinct and specific.
Before beginning, review the sample entry form and contest
application instructions included at the end of this document.
DO NOT SUBMIT ANY ITEMS IN HARD COPY.
Only applications submitted through this website will be considered.
NOTE: All items submitted to this contest
will be destroyed after the contest.
Market Opportunity:
113 Industries High-Speed Open Innovation Energy - This service will be mostly
used by major drilling, exploration and waste management companies. These
companies include Fortune 500 such as Chevron, Consol Energy, Shell and
Stateoil to name a few.
Description of your technology/product/service:
113 Industries’ High-Speed Open Innovation Energy - This is a 60-day research
program that explores embryonic, emerging and commercially available
technologies from over 200 national and international universities, 250 US based
federal labs, 15 patent databases covering 80 countries, 500 leading scientific
journals, and 12 technology marketplaces. The global program goes beyond
research to include analysis and specific technology recommendations that align
with strategic and tactical exploration and environmental protection goals.
Our research service finds the latest breakthrough, technological advances, and
scientific discoveries in the areas of exploration, drilling, well casing, hydraulic
fracturing and most of all environmental protection that can be applied to help
solve some of the daunting challenges faced by Marcellus Shale companies.
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The proprietary blend of technology, scientific expertise, and business acumen
allows 113 to identify truly strategic technologies that will generate higher
revenues and protect our environment and natural resources.
Customers:
There are over 200 companies just in PA that would directly benefit from our
scientific research. The service we offer to our Marcellus Shale customers allows
them to generate over $3B in revenue and a total job creation opportunity of over
500,000 new jobs.
Customer Problem:
The Marcellus Shale industry is coming under great pressure and scrutiny due to
the recent reports of our water table contamination, brine water disposal, and
increasing bromide levels in our rivers. In addition they are also faced with
productivity, performance and technical challenges in extracting the gas. It
appears their current estimates are lower which is effecting our state’s tax
revenue. This is due to the lack of technological solutions they currently face.
Value Proposition:
As a result of the High-Speed Open Innovation Energy Program, companies will
be equipped with the knowledge and technology intelligence to accomplish the
following business benefits:
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Accelerate their ability to drill, explore and manage waste.
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Reduce their time to solve technological limitations and drive higher
revenue streams.
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Achieve revenue growth through introduction of new exploration and waste
management technologies
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Introduce new discoveries while reducing cost and technological risks
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In addition, the state and regulatory agencies will benefit from having clear
guidelines, a well defined monitoring system and a clean, protected and healthy
environment.
In summary 113 Industries is also driven by the same goals as our energy
companies. Our dependence on foreign resource of energy has to be reduced.
We have one the largest resources of natural gas that will provide our region with
the economic vitality needed. We have the best scientific resources available in
the country. 113 Industries makes it possible for our energy companies to access
and utilize this technologies to help solve their technical and environmental
problems.
Intellectual Property:
113 Industries has developed a proprietary combination of research process,
computing technology and scientific team that is hard to duplicate. The 113
Industries IP is in the associative connection of three disciplines material
science, computing and research that leads to their competitive advantage.
Competitive Advantage:
113 Industries have developed three areas of competitive advantage to
differentiate themselves from other companies in similar fields. Companies such
as 9 Sigma and Innocentive would be placed in our competitive grid. We compete
on the following three areas:
Breadth of Scientific Network – 200 Universities, 250 Federal Labs, 500 Scientific
Journals, 80 Countries Patent Databases and 12 Technology Marketplaces.
Breadth of Scientist – Material Science, Energy, Chemistry, Physics,
Environmental and Nano
Computing Software – Proprietary software technology that interconnects all of
the above resources.
Team:
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Razi Imam – Founder and CEO – 100% of the time will be dedicated to this project
Razi Imam is an accomplished award winning innovator, entrepreneur, and author. He
has experience and knowledge of successfully innovating products and services,
launching them in competitive markets, and building world-class high-performance
teams. He has recently founded 113 Industries that focuses on helping companies shift
their innovation strategy from being internally focused to adopting an Open Innovation
model. 113 Industries drives the successful commercialization and adoption of
discoveries coming out of research universities, federal labs, and research driven
enterprises by mid market and Fortune 500 companies looking to introduce new
products.
In recognition of his entrepreneurial success, Carnegie Science Foundation has
presented Razi with their prestigious award honoring innovation in Science and
Technology. He has been recently appointed as an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University
to teach a course on "Open Innovation" starting January 2012. He is also the founder of Landslide Technologies, a sales process software company
recognized as the top 100 private companies by AlwaysOn. Landslide has received
wide acclaim from customers, analysts as an innovator in the SaaS industry. Based on
his innovative strategies Landslide has been named ‘visionary’ three years in row by the
leading analyst firm – The Gartner Group. Imam’s career spans working in Fortune 500 companies to being part of three
successful startups. He has successfully launched and re-launched companies by
defining their product and market strategies, repositioning them in the face of economic
downturn, defining new product categories, and establishing them as the leader in their
space.
Razi is also the author of "Driven" a John Wiley and Sons publication.
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Anupam Singh – Founder and President – 100% of the time will be dedicated to
this project.
Anupam Singh is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in designing,
building and delivering innovative solutions and services.
Anupam's career path includes working in Fortune 500 companies to multiple
successful startups. His experience spans individual contributor roles in software
development to technology, operations and executive leadership roles. Anupam has
experience in a variety of industries including high-end computer graphics, networking,
procurement, global supply management, sales and marketing software. In his
leadership roles at startups, Anupam has successfully attracted and assembled high
performance teams.
Prior to launching 113 Industries to enable open innovation for mid-market and Fortune
500 companies, Anupam co-founded Landslide Technologies Inc. in 2004. Landslide
has received industry wide recognition and rave reviews from customers, analysts and
press. Landslide has been recognized by Gartner as a visionary product three years in
a row. It also received the Product Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan and was
selected twice as the "One to Watch" product by CRM Magazine. Prior to Landslide,
Anupam worked at industry leading companies including FreeMarkets (now Ariba),
FORE Systems, Hewlett Packard and Metrix Network Systems.
Lacramioara Schulte auf'm Erley, Ph.D.—Director of Innovation – 100% of the time
would be dedicated to this project.
Technology leader with proven record of developing product driven R&D programs in
advanced materials areas. Expertise in driving innovative technologies, research
program management.
Patents/Patent applications
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Martin, C.R., Siwy, Z., Howorka, S., Kohli, P., Trofin, L., Harrell, C., C.,
“Chemical Particle and Biosensing with Nanopore and Nanotube Containing
Membranes and Films”, filing date September 29th, 2004, UF No.:11537.
Lee, SB., Trofin, L., Rae, A., “TREATED ARTICLES AND METHODS OF
TREATING ARTICLES”, NanoDynamics Inc., patent application 20090022974.
Lee, SB. Schulte auf’m Erley, L., Berubbe, G. DIRECTED MIGRATION OF
HYDROPHOBIC NANOMATERIALS AT SURFACES, NanoDynamics, Inc.,
WO/2008/098069.
Publications in peer reviewed journals
 Lee, S.B.; Mitchell, D.T.; Trofin, L.; Nevanen, T.K.; Soderlund, H.; Martin, C.R.
“Antibody-Based Bio/Nanotube Membranes for Enantiomeric Drug Separations,”
Science, 2002, 296, 2198-2200.
 Mitchell, D.T.; Lee, S.B.; Trofin, L.; Li, N.; Nevanen, T.K.; Soderlund, H.; Martin,
C.R. “Smart Nanotubes for Bioseparations and Biocatalysis,” J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
2002, 124, 11864-11865.
 Trofin, L., Lee, S. B., Mitchell, D. T., Martin, C. R.”A Ligand-Gated Ion-Channel
Mimetic Nanopore Membrane with an On-board Transmembrane Microbattery.”,
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2004, 4, 3, 239-244.
 Hou, S., Harrell, C., Trofin, L., Kohli, P., Martin, C.R., “Layer-by-Layer Nanotube
Template Synthesis”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126 (18) 5674-5675.
 Gasparac, R., Kohli, P., Mota, M., Trofin, L., Martin, C. R. ,”Template Synthesis
of Nano Test Tubes”, Nano Letters, 2004, 3, 513-516.
 Kang, M., Trofin , L., Mota, M., Martin, C.R., ” Protein Capture in Silica Nanotube
Membrane 3-D Microwell Arrays”, Analytical Chemistry 2005, 77(19), 62436249.
 Siwy, Z., Trofin, L., Kohli, P., Baker, L., Martin, C. R., “Proteins Sensing with
Single Abiotic Nanopore. Application to detection of biological warfare agents.”,
J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2005, 127,5000-5001.
 Tafazzoli A, Cheng CM, Pawashe C, Sabo E, Trofin L, Sitti M, LeDuc P. 2007
“Subfeature Patterning of Organic And Inorganic Materials Using Robotic
Assembly” Journal of Material Research 22: 1601-1608.
 Trofin, L., LeDuc, P., “Controlled geometry fabrication of polydimethylsiloxane
nanofibers for biomimetics, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 105, 5, 2007,
2549-2552.
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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
How did you hear about this contest?
Received an email from Ben Franklin.
Website of your local newspaper:
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/print-edition/2012/01/20/dont-create-jobscreate-innovation-boom.html
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